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...Moslem wedding-a Koran resting on gold brocade, a golden mirror to symbolize brightness and joy, bowls fashioned out of crystal candy to symbolize the sweetness of marriage. But the most significant of the objects before the 40-year-old Shahanshah of Iran and his third bride, Farah Diba, 21, was the Symbol of Plenty, a ten-foot-long loaf of plain bread on which were written the words: "May Allah give you a male heir...
...correspondents-mostly French and Italian-who flew in from the Continent to give breathless coverage of the wedding, the need to provide a male successor to the Peacock Throne was the overriding consideration in the marriage. It was the Shah's own grown daughter, Princess Shahnaz, who spotted Farah as a likely candidate-an aristocratic young Iranian beauty who was studying art in Paris (TIME, Nov. 2). When the Shah took Farah up in his private jet plane over Teheran, the French press eagerly told of how he whispered "Je t'aime," but the Shah, the court...
Long Day's Journey. At 3:20 p.m., Farah, dressed in her 33-lb., jewel-encrusted, mink-hemmed Dior wedding gown, descended the staircase of her home for the last time, stepped to a cage and set free 150 nightingales, a ritual she preferred to the usual symbolic slaughter of lambs all over the countryside. As she walked through the front door, her mother held over her head a mirror and the Koran as a symbol of the long journey she was about to take. Finally, escorted by a troop of Imperial Lancers, Farah was driven in a Rolls...
After the Shah's mother gave a party in her honor last week, Farah Diba was escorted to the Teheran airport next morning by palace guards in civilian clothes, boarded an airliner for Geneva and Paris, presumably to buy her trousseau (she bought 15 Dior dresses). Iranian courtiers speculate that the engagement will be announced this week on the Shah's 40th birthday, but point out that even if the marriage goes through as expected, Farah will receive the title of Queen of Iran only if she bears a son. Until that time, she would probably be known...
...Paris at week's end, Farah Diba was in full flight from reporters and photographers, refused to answer any questions. A foresighted newsman who had boarded her Paris-bound plane at Geneva asked her, "Will you be the next Queen of Iran?" Replied Farah, with an air of someone who knows a secret, "Ah, do you think...